Mukesh Ambani does it again, now phone is also free

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Friday, 21 July 2017 (14:19 IST)

Mumbai: Reliance Jio Infocomm (RJio), the telecom arm of Mukesh Ambani controlled Reliance Industries (RIL), has unveiled a 'made in India by young Indians for all Indians', the Jio phone. which is provided with an 'effective price of Rs. zero', compared with an entry-level smartphone that costs between Rs. 3,500-4,000.

It took 25 years for our competitors to build 2G network. Jio has created a larger 4G network in just 3 years, he added. In just 6 months of Jio's launch, data consumption in India went from 20 crore GB to 120 crore GB per month. Jio users consistently make more than 250 crore minutes of voice and video calls every single day, he said.